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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelSeries
Reference Number MS PHILL
TitlePhillipps Manuscripts
Extent196 items
CustodialHistoryThe manuscripts in this collection belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), baronet, an antiquary and bibliophile whose library included c60,000 manuscripts of various kinds. Various manuscripts were sold after Sir Thomas's death, some to the German government, and were dispersed to several libraries.
AcquisitionThe Phillipps Manuscripts held by UCL were presented to the College by the German Government in 1912. They were apportioned from a larger gift that had been made to the German Kaiser and mostly relate to the administration of Swiss Towns.
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
FindingAidsDorothy K Coveney, A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of University College London (London, 1935); handlist at University College London Special Collections.
PublnNoteSee "The Dispersal of the Phillipps Library" by A.N.L. Munby (Cambridge: CUP, 1960) Phillipps studies, no. 5
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